200 kidnapping CIA flights went through British airspace

BillieTheBot

Government in 'economical with the truth' claims shocker

MPs will today chastise ministers over their stance on the US practice of "extraordinary rendition" amid the first official admission that 200 suspect CIA flights had used British airspace.
In a report highly critical of the government's attitude towards human rights abuses, the Commons foreign affairs committee accuses ministers of failing in their duty to find out whether Britain has been complicit in the US policy of secretly transferring detainees to places where they risked being tortured.

[..]Mr Clegg also said that the disclosure by Britain's air traffic control service "flies in the face of the answer we received from the government that only two or three cases of rendition ever took place".

Mr Straw said yesterday: "We know of no occasion where there has been a rendition through UK territory, or indeed over UK territory, nor do we have any reason to believe that such flights have taken place without our knowledge."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1715866,00.html

Great.

"What's that Ms Rice? You've got another planeload of illegally kidnapped POWs being shipped to a torture camp? No problem, our airspace is yours."

So much for ethical policy. So much for 'human rights' and fighting torture and abuses.

What bunch of odious lying scum :mad:

Former Member

People who kill and steal for a living have no ethics shocker!!!!

Teh_Gerbil

klintock wrote:

People who kill and steal for a living have no ethics shocker!!!!

:thumb:

I am not supprised. Our fucking pro-US government needs shot. So do the current US Government, but nearly all US regeims have been the same.

Ah, fuck em all. The west is losing its power anyway as we speak. Thing is... will the next world rulers be better... or worse? Interesting time to be about this, if nothing else.

Former Member

What's even worse, and even more hypocritical is that some of these people just grabbed off the street end up in places like Syria, werent they part of the Axis of Evil?

Interesting to note that there's no need for the US to grab UK people because they dont have to present any evidence for extradition.

Former Member

How much more fuel would it be to fly around our airspace? seriously?

Former Member

subject13 wrote:

How much more fuel would it be to fly around our airspace? seriously?

Its not just our airspace, they have been stopping in Scotland to re-fuel.

Former Member

You don't think it about the environment do you? Maybe they are using shorter range planes for the purposes of minimising greenhouse gases forcing them to land and refuel here. If they cared less for the environment then they wouldnt have to land to refuel.

On a serious note, its fucking not on! If they want to torture people have the balls to do it in your own country, dont wash away guilt by flying them off around the world to let others do it so it can be "legal" despite the law!

Former Member

Welcome to the club of nations whose leaders need to be shot for treason. I think you all are going to like it here....